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Slavery and the American Constitution
Slavery and the American ConstitutionSlavery on Caribbean plantations Often owned by absentee British owners who also were members of British parliament and very rich This approach was coupled with the increasingly acceptable attitude that money making was acceptable to the elite Some island populations were 90% slaves Slave rebellions became the greatest concern of non-slave inhabitants and British and other owners addressed this in part by getting out of town White and mixed-race overseers were the plantation managers Absentee ownership became a model for South Carolina low country rice planters in the 18thand 19thcentury This arrangement separated the owners from the slaves making Slavery and its cruelties remote and more pervasive Freeman also owned slaves on smaller sugar plantations Caribbean islands produced so much income for British owners and government that one half of the British troops in America in 1788 were shipped to the Caribbean after the 1788 American -French treaty for protection against the French fleet British sugar exports exceed the value of American exports
Slavery on Caribbean plantations Often owned by absentee British owners who also were members of British parliament and very rich •This approach was coupled with the increasingly acceptable attitude that money making was acceptable to the elite Some island populations were 90% slaves •Slave rebellions became the greatest concern of non-slave
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